Clothes-drying device.



No. 854.267. PATENTED MAY 21. 1907.

A. u. BULLOCK.

CLOTHES DRYING DEVICE. Arrmouxox FILED 1.16. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTH ES -DRYING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1907.

Application filed January16,1906. Serial 1%. 296,302.-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMASA M. BULLooK, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at the city of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new' and useful Improvement in Clothes- Drying Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved indoor clothes drying device designed to provide a means for hanging the clothes to be dried in the upperpart of a room as being the hottest and where they will be little in the way. In order to economize space the several lines of clothes are arranged as close as practicable together consistent with the free passage of air through and among them.

The invention comprises a bracketed rack upon which clothes carrying rods may be placed, and a means for transferring the rods from a position where the clothes can conveniently be arranged upon them to the divisions of the rack where they are to be deposited for drying.

There are also various minor features of convenience and construction to which attention will be drawn in the course of the following specification which fully describes the invention and the manner of its operation and use, reference being made to the drawings which accompany it, in which,

Figure 1,is a vertical section showing in side elevation one of the transferring arms in the lower position with a rod ready to elevate, Fig. 2, a front elevation showing the transferring arms in the dot and dash position of Fig. 1, Figs. 3 and 4 show in elevation and plan the rod checks of the rack, and, Fig. 5, the cleat by which the transferring arms are supported at intermediate positions.

In these drawings the wall of a room is represented by 2, the floor by 3 and the ceiling by 4. Strongly secured to the wall 2 are two uprights 5 extending from the ceiling to approximately the mid-height of the room,

and toward the upper end of these uprights 5 are secured brackets 6 the contour of the upper edges of which are curved to a radius which will be defined later and are provided with a series of approximately semi-circular notches or grooves 7 which are in alinement and are designed to receive clothes carrying rods 8. The distance between the brackets may be such that the rods will overhang at each end, so that the weight of the clothes on thrlel rod between its supporting brackets 6 W1 weight beyond them.

Toward the lower end of the uprights 5 is rotatably mounted in bearings 10 a shaft 9, toward each end of which. adjacent to the bearings are secured arms 11. These arms may be secured in any suitable manner, but the fastening which I adopt and which is illustrated in the drawings is a simple and efficient one and consists in splitting the end of each arm 11 where it is bored to lit the shaft 9 and passing one or more small stove bolts through the arm and the shaft. This posi tively fixes the arms in relation to one an other on the shaft and affords a strong frictional grip between arm and shaft.

he general contour of the upper edges of the brackets 6 is a curve struck from the cen ter of the shaft 9, and the end of each arm is extended beyond the and is furnished with a projection 14 so that when a clothes carrying rod 8 is pressed against the inner side of the projection the lower side of the rod will clear the upper edge of the brackets 6.

Toward the outer or free end of each arm 11 is pivotally'mounted on a pin 12 a small grip lever 13 designed to hold a rod 8 against the end projection 14 or to release that grip when required, and to the lower end of each lever is pivotally connected a strut 16 which will su port the arms 11 at a convenient height rom the floor level while 'clothes are being arranged on a rod 8 carried by the arms and these struts 16 may be used as handles or push rods to move the arms carrying a rod 8 up and over the bracket 6 and to release the grip and lower the rod into the notches provided.

The lower end of the grip lever 13 is preferably L shaped as shown in the drawing that the upward push of the rods 16 will hold the rod 8 against the end projection 14 while it is being lifted over the bracket 6, until it is desired to deposit the rod in the grooves or notches 7 when the rods are pulled down releasing the grip and lowering the rod. The back of the farther notch toward the wall, of the brackets 6 is extended upward to form a stop 17 to insure that the clothes carrying rod 8 will be checked over the notch, that it may be deposited in it when the bar 12 is lowered with that object and to insure that the succeeding rods are stopped over their respective successive notches I provide between radius of the bracket be approximately balanced by the' rod 8 gripped between the projections 14 and each pair of notches pivotally mounted light 1 triangular checks 18, illustrated in detail in Figs. 3 and 4. These consist of small triangular pieces of metal each movable on a pin 19 secured to the side of the brackets and checked against a pin in such a manner that when free the triangular piece will lie in the position indicated so that one of its angles will project in alinement with the groove, but when a rod occupies that groove this projecting angle will be depressed'and will elevate the other angles to form a stop to check the next rod over the next groove. The position of the pin 20 is such that it will act as a stop in either position of the check 18.

In the operation of the device the arms 11 are lowered until the struts 16 bear on the floor when the clothes may be arranged on, a

the levers 13. By means of the supporting struts 16 the arms 11 with their sustained rod of clothes may be lifted up until the rod 8 is over the brackets 6 and engages the check stop 17 of the farther groove. The rods 16 are then pulled down, the grip of levers 13 released, and the rod 8 is deposited in the groove when it will engage the projecting angles of each check 18 and the other angle of the check will be turned up to offer a stop for the next rod which may be elevated and de posited in the same manner, and this operation is continued until all the grooves are occupied. As when ironing it may be convenient to have accessible drying rods without the necessity of elevating them to the rack brackets 6, I provide knotted cords secured to the bracket and a cleat 26, see Fig. 5, that will receive'the cord but will not allow the knot to pass. By this means the arms 1 1 may be sustained at any desired height, and I furnish the arms with a series of rod apertures 27 in which rods may successively be in troduced as required. A rack 30 is secured to the uprights 5 in which the supply of rods may be kept.

Although the various parts are designed for manufacture in wood I do not desire to be confined to that material, and the particular construction of the brackets and the transferring arms 800. may be modified to adapt them to the use of metal if found desirable.

Having now particularly described my invention and the manner of its operation, I declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent is.

1. In a device of the class described, means secured to the wall of a room adjacent the ceiling for holding clothes carrying rods, means for transferring clothes carrying rods from one position and depositing them on the rod receiving means, said last named means comprising arms pivotally mounted to the wall below the rod receiving means, means for holding a clothes carrying rod toward the ends of such arms, and means for elevating the free end of the arms to move the clothes carrying rods over the rod receiving means, and for releasing the hold on the rod and depositing it on the rod receiving means.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, notched rod receiving brackets secured to the wall of a room toward the ceiling, means for depositing clothes carrying rodsin the notches of the rod receiving means, said depositing means comprising arms pivotally mounted to the wall of the room about mid-height, an upward projection on the end of said arms, an Lshaped lever pivotally mounted to the arms, the upper end of which lever serves to hold a clothes carrying rod against the up ward projection, struts pivotally connected to the lower end of each lever for supporting the arms at the required height from the floor and for affording a means for elevating the free ends of the arms, and releasing the rod when desired, substantially as shown and described.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, notched brackets for holding clothes carrying rods, means for transferring clothes carrying rods onto said brackets, checks secured to said brackets for arresting the movement of a rod on the transferring means over a vacant groove in the bracket, said checks comprising triangular pieces pivotally mounted to the sides of the brackets, one angle of each check projecting into the alinement of the further groove so that when a rod occupies that groove the other edge of the triangle will be elevated and will project into the path of a rod on the transferring means and form a check to arrest the movement of such rod, and a stop pin to limit the movement of each triangular check.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with clothes rod carrying brackets secured to the wall of a room toward the ceiling, a shaft mounted in bearings secured to the wall beneath the brackets, arms se cured to the shaft in alinement with one another, and means for supporting the arms at any desired height, such means comprising knotted cords secured to the bracket above and a cleat on each arm adapted to receive the cord but through which a knot will not pass. 4

5. An apparatus of the class described, comprising rod receiving racks, and means for transferring clothes carrying rods from one position and depositing them on the rod receiving racks, means on the rack for guiding the clothes carrying rods into position thereon, substantially as shown and described.

6. In a device of the class described; uprights secured to the Wall of a room, brackets toward the upper end of these uprights, arms pivotally mounted toward the lower part of the uprights, means for holding a clothes carrying rod toward the end of the pivotally' mounted arms, means for supporting the free end of the arms at a desired height from the ground, such means comprising a strut flexibly connected to the rod holding means toward the end of each arm and that may be used for elevating the arms and for depositing a rod thereon on the brackets.

7. In a device of the class described, the combination with rod receiving racks, of means mounted below the rod receiving racks for transferring clothes carrying rods from beneath the racks and depositing them on the rod carrying racks, substantially as shown and described. L

8. In a device of the class described, the

' combination with rod receiving racks, of means for transferring clothes carrying rods from one position and depositing them on the rod receiving racks, said means comprising arms pivotally mounted below the racks, means for holding a clothes carrying rod toward the ends of said arms, and means for elevating the other ends of the arms over the racks, for releasing the hold on the rod, and depositing it on the racks, substantially as shown and described.

9. In a device of the class described, means for transferring clothes carrying rods from one position to another, said means comprising pivotally mounted arms, means for holding a clothes carrying rod toward the ends of such arms, and means for elevating the other ends of the arms, for releasing the hold on the rod and depositing it on a suitable receiver, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AMASA M. BULLOCK. Witnesses: i

ANDREW E. LEEs,

ROWLAND BRITTAIN. 

